CHARLOTTESVILLE — After white supremacists staged a violent rally around a monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in 2017, the city took down the statue and community organizers melted it to ensure it would never rise again. Then they faced a dilemma.
Bronze from Charlottesville’s melted Robert E. Lee statue to become art
Renderings of proposed public art that would make use of bronze left over after the melting of the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that had long stood in Charlottesville. (Hood Design Studio/PUSH Studio/MASS)
